The European Food Safety Authority and the European Medicine Agency are slated to begin a joint study on how phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory drug used in horses, can affect humans who eat horse meat that contains the drug. For more on this story from Neogen blog, click here.

Prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow), can adapt to transmit across different species. Until recently, however, scientists weren’t sure how the mechanism for change worked.